‘Easily the Most Insane Animal Footage’: What Is This Strange Underwater Creature?

The Blaze ^ | May 9, 2012 | Liz Klimas

[Twotone]

You may think what you see at 20 seconds into the video below is just a little jelly fish. But wait — you‘re about to be taken on a ride where you’ll see it grow, morph, undulate and still won’t know quite what this confounding, “easily the most insane animal footage ever caught on an undersea camera” is.

[Carriage Hill]

Looks like a whale’s “loogie”?

[Cyman]

I just got back from a fishing trip in Mexico(excellent largemouth fishing) and when I looked in the bowl this am something really close to that was floating down the drain. Now I am afraid to go home.

[Bernard Marx]

I’d stay far away from the thing...at one point it looked like it was getting horny.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Lurker]

For later.

[txhurl]

These animals were predicted in The Abyss. Just not so quite laid back.

Thanks for the thread, amazing creature.

'Hippie, you're gonna give that rat a disease.'

[MagnoliaB]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[Salamander]

“When Cthulu calls, let the machine pick up” ping.

[American in Israel]

Perhaps it is Zeros fiscal policy loose in the sea?

[MarineBrat]

[Michael Barnes]

I was reading on another site that there are two possibilities. One is it is some species of jelly fish that went too deep and the pressure messed it up. Second is that it might be innards from a harvested whale or shark.
None the less, completely bizarre and hypnotic at the same time.

[Iron head mike]

It’s the Smog Monster!! somebody call Godzilla!

[Iron head mike]

It’s the Smog Monster!! somebody call Godzilla!

[martin_fierro]

“W T actual F” Ping

[Hegewisch Dupa]

That was one awesome reference man!

[SaraJohnson]

Up close, it looks like a fishing net design. Probably has critters (jellyfish, for one) trapped in it. Looks like it might have an eel, too.

[yoe]

If it is in the Gulf of Mexico maybe it is a Jellyfish that is suffering from the "...2 million gallons of toxic dispersants were sprayed into the Gulf, which may be making waters more toxic for species.

[fini]

That’s no animal. That’s my son’s dirty sheets. I wondered where he put them.

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL! Good call!

[shibumi]

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.